4. Journals4.1 Contents: Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing 4.2 Contents: Applied and Computational Mathematics4.3 Contents: Control Engineering Practice4.4 Contents: Control and Intelligent Systems4.5 Contents: International Journal of Systems Science4.6 Contents: International Journal of Control4.7 Contents: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization4.8 Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems4.9 CFP: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 4.10 CFP: Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems

5. Conferences5.1 ICSTCC 2012 Joint Conference 5.2 Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing5.3 International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics5.4 ANTS 2012: International Conference on Swarm Intelligence5.5 International Conference on Systems and Computer Science5.6 ICNPAA 2012 World Congress5.7 Automation & Control for Energy Conference

6. Workshops6.1 International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems6.2 ACC2012 Workshop on Control of Power Inverters6.3 Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory6.4 Advanced FDI and FTC Wind Turbine Benchmark Model Challenge6.5 IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control

New item on ieeecss.orgThe IEEE Control Systems Society Publications Content Digest is a novel andconvenient guide that helps readers keep track of the latest published articles. The CSS Publications Content Digest, available at http://ieeecss.org/publications-content-digestprovides lists of current tables of contents of the periodicals sponsored by the Control Systems Society. Each issue offers readers a rapid means to survey and access the latest peer-reviewed papers of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

The index in the Digest contains the Table of Contents for our 3 journals (Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST), and Control Systems Magazine (CSM)) with hyperlinks to the abstracts as well as the full articles in Xplore. Since TAC and CSM are published bimonthly, and TAC is published monthly, we will post the corresponding two TOCs in each (monthly) Digest. We also include links to the Society's sponsored Conferences to give readers a preview of upcoming meetings.

We are pleased to announce a very exciting set of workshops to be offered at the next American Control Conference to be held in Montreal on June 27-29,

All workshops will take place the day before the ACC starts, Tuesday June 26. There will be a total of 12 workshops offered, eight full-day workshops and four half-day workshops in the afternoon of June 26.

The complete list of workshops is indicated below. For full details, please consult the ACC website at:

Please note that the contents of the IEEE-Transactions on Automatic Control, together with links to the abstracts of the papers may be found at the TAC web site: http://www.nd.edu/~ieeetac/contents.htmlThe IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Submission and Review Management System

Please note that the contents of the IEEE-Transactions on Automatic Control, together with links to the abstracts of the papers may be found at the TAC web site: http://www.nd.edu/~ieeetac/contents.html

The IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Submission and Review Management System

The Nordic Process Control Award is awarded for lasting and significant contributions to the field of process control. The twelfth recipient of this award is Professor Lorenz T. Biegler. Lorenz T. Biegler is given the award for development of optimization algorithms for process control. In particular, Prof. Lorenz T. Biegler has made significant and lasting contributions to Nonlinear Model Predictive Control by development of the simultaneous method for optimization of dynamical systems and the software package IPOPT. The award was presented to Professor Biegler on January 26, 2012 during the 17th Nordic Process Control Workshop held at the Technical University of Denmark. The title of his inspiring award lecture was "A Nonlinear Programming Path to NMPC and Real-Time Optimization".

This book describes the classical smoothing, filtering and prediction techniques together with some more recently developed embellishments for improving performance within applications. It aims to present the subject in an accessible way, so that it can serve as a practical guide for undergraduates and newcomers to the field. The material is organised as a ten-lecture course. The foundations are laid in Chapters 1 and 2, which explain minimum-mean-square-error solution construction and asymptotic behaviour. Chapters 3 and 4 introduce continuous-time and discrete-time minimum-variance filtering. Generalisations for missing data, deterministic inputs, correlated noises, direct feedthrough terms, output estimation and equalisation are described. Chapter 5 simplifies the minimum-variance filtering results for steady-state problems. Observability, Riccati equation solution convergence, asymptotic stability and Wiener filter equivalence are discussed. Chapters 6 and 7 cover the subject of continuous-time and discrete-time smoothing. The main fixed-lag, fixed-point and fixed-interval smoother results are derived. It is shown that the minimum-variance fixed-interval smoother attains the best performance. Chapter 8 attends to parameter estimation. As the above-mentioned approaches all rely on knowledge of the underlying model parameters, maximum-likelihood techniques within expectation-maximisation algorithms for joint state and parameter estimation are described. Chapter 9 is concerned with robust techniques that accommodate uncertainties within problem specifications. An extra term within Riccati equations enables designers to trade-off average error and peak error performance. Chapter 10 rounds off the course by applying the afore-mentioned linear techniques to nonlinear estimation problems. It is demonstrated that step-wise linearisations can be used within predictors, filters and smoothers, albeit by forsaking optimal performance guarantees.

Two chapters have been added to Optimal Control, one on Differential Games and one on Reinforcement Learning Methods in Feedback Control. The games chapter lays out the mathematical background of two-player zero-sum games, H-infinity control, and multi-player nonzero-sum games. The chapter on reinforcement learning shows how to design novel adaptive control structures that converge online to optimal control solutions by measuring data along the system trajectories. This gives a family of optimal adaptive controllers that are capable of solving Hamilton-Jacobi design equations and Riccati equations online in real-time without knowing the drift dynamics (e.g. f(x), or in the linear case the A matrix). A novel integral reinforcement learning method is presented that allows the extension of RL methods to continuous-time systems.

Nob Hill Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of the textbook “Model Predictive Control: Theory and Design,” by James B. Rawlings, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and David Q. Mayne, Imperial College, London. This text provides a comprehensive and foundational treatment of the theory and design of model predictive control. It enables researchers to learn and teach the fundamentals of MPC without continually searching the diverse control research literature for omitted arguments and requisite background material. More than 200 end-of-chapter exercises support the teaching and learning of MPC.

A solution manual for end-of-chapter exercises is available to course instructors who adopt the text.

The authors received the 2011 inaugural IFAC High Impact Paper award for an MPCreview paper that preceded the text. The text was also recognized in the 2011 Ragazzini (Education) Award of the American Automatic Control Council. This book has been adopted for graduate courses at nine universities in six countries.

Adaptive Robust Tracking Control of an Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator System with Sub-Region and Self-Motion Criteria Zool H. Ismail, Matthew W. Dunnigan

About Control and Intelligent Systems First published in 1972, this journal covers all aspects of control theory and related computational techniques and practical applications. Apart from conventional control, the journal publishes papers in the field of intelligent control and soft computing; particularly, intelligent systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms/evolutionary computing, and probabilistic techniques. It also includes book reviews, conference notices, calls for papers, and announcements of new publications.

Call for papers, MCSS Special Issue on “Control, Communication, and Complexity”

The journal Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (MCSS) welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on “Control, Communication, and Complexity” which is scheduled to be published in 2013. Guest Editors are Charalambos D. Charalambous (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Pieter Collins (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) and Fritz Colonius (University of Augsburg, Germany).

The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to

ICSTCC 2012 Joint Conference 16th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing Sinaia, ROMANIA October 12 – 14, 2012

Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Control System Society.

The Joint Conference is for the third time organized in this format. The main goal of this conference is to provide a multidisciplinary forum between researchers from industry and academia to discuss state-of-the-art topics in system theory, control and computing, and to present recent research results and prospects for development in this evolving area. ICSTCC 2012 will feature several kinds of presentations including invited and contributed papers, special sessions and poster sessions.

The conference will be hosted by the Palace Hotel, Sinaia. Sinaia is one of the most famous and oldest mountain tourist resorts in Romania, known as “The Carpathian Pearl”. Situated in breathtaking mountain scenery, Sinaia is located at 120 km distance from Bucharest, on the Prahova Valley. Blending astonishing beauty of nature with picturesque architecture, Sinaia is a formal royal residence.

IMPORTANT DATES: May 1st, 2012: Submission of proposals for INVITED SESSIONS May 15th, 2012: Submission of papers July 5th, 2012: Notification of acceptance for papers and invited sessions September 1st, 2012: Final camera ready manuscript and registration payment of at least one of the authors

The Fiftieth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing will be held from Monday, October 1 through Friday, October 5, 2012, at Allerton House, the conference center of the University of Illinois. Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of communication systems, communication and computer networks, detection and estimation theory, information theory, error control coding, source coding and data compression, network algorithms, control systems, robust and nonlinear control, adaptive control, optimization, dynamic games, multi-agent systems, large-scale systems, robotics and automation, manufacturing systems, discrete event systems, multivariable control, computer vision-based control, learning theory, cyber-physical systems, security and resilience in networks, VLSI architectures for communications and signal processing, and intelligent transportation systems. Manuscripts must be submitted by Tuesday, July 10, 2012, following the instructions at the Conference website: http://www.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton/.

Allerton Conference will be celebrating its Golden Anniversary this year. Because of this special occasion, the conference will be longer than its usual 2 ½ days format, to accommodate some special sessions and events in connection with the 50th celebration.

Allerton House is located twenty-six miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University in a wooded area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred acre Robert Allerton Park, a complex of natural and man-made beauty designated as a National natural landmark. Allerton Park has twenty miles of well-maintained trails and a living gallery of formal gardens, studded with sculptures collected from around the world.

Notices: Final versions of papers to be presented at the conference will need to be submitted electronically by October 5, 2012.

GENERAL INFORMATION The 17th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Control (MMAR’2012) is to be held August 27-30, 2012 in Miedzyzdroje (Poland). The conference aims to bring together engineers and scientists from academia, research institutes and industry so that they can discuss the latest developments and requirements in traditional and non-traditional areas of Automation and Robotics.

Technical programme will include a broad range of topics covering new theoretical and technological developments and applications in:

linear and non-linear predictive control robust and adaptive control networked control systems fuzzy logic, neural networks and intelligent control modelling and identification distributed parameter systems discrete events and hybrid systems cooperative, coordinated and decentralized control computer aided control systems design and other computational aspects marine and aerospace guidance and control advanced process control fault detection, diagnosis and fault tolerant control recent drive systems in robotics kinematics and dynamics of robots mathematical foundations of robotics motion planning and algorithms human-robot interaction advanced robotics robot control modeling nonholonomic systems sensory feedback in robots, visual systems feedback various applications of robotic systems hybrid control in robotics

Apart from plenary and invited sessions the programme will also include invited and tutorial sessions, panel discussions, software demonstrations and hardware displays.

PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective participants are invited to electronically submit the full version of their work by the indicated deadlines, following the guidelines available on http://mmar2012.e-papers.org/.

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings, and included in the IEEE Xplore® online digital library.

For more information about the Conference, please contact the Conference secretariat: mmar@mmar.edu.pl

Scope of the ConferenceSwarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with thestudy of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificialsystems. Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposedmany models to explain interesting aspects of social insect behaviorsuch as self-organization and shape-formation. Recently, algorithmsand methods inspired by these models have been proposed to solvedifficult problems in many domains.

An example of a particularly successful research direction in swarmintelligence is ant colony optimization, the main focus of which is ondiscrete optimization problems. Ant colony optimization has beenapplied successfully to a large number of difficult discreteoptimization problems including the traveling salesman problem, thequadratic assignment problem, scheduling, vehicle routing, etc., aswell as to routing in telecommunication networks. Another interestingapproach is that of particle swarm optimization, that focuses oncontinuous optimization problems. Here too, a number of successfulapplications can be found in the recent literature. Swarm robotics isanother relevant field. Here, the focus is on applying swarmintelligence techniques to the control of large groups of cooperatingautonomous robots.

ANTS 2012 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunityto meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss currentdevelopments and applications.

The three-day conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium, onSeptember 12-14, 2012.

Relevant Research AreasANTS 2012 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of swarmintelligence. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:

Behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies thatcan stimulate new algorithmic approaches.

Empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence.

Application of swarm intelligence methods, such as ant colonyoptimization or particle swarm optimization, to real-world problems.

Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics systems.

Publication DetailsConference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCSseries.

The journal Swarm Intelligence will publish a special issue dedicatedto ANTS 2012 that will contain extended versions of the best researchworks presented at the conference. Further details will bepublished on the web site.

Best Paper AwardA best paper award will be presented at the conference.

Further InformationUp-to-date information will be published on the web sitehttp://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012/. For information about localarrangements, registration forms, etc., please refer to theabove-mentioned web site or contact the local organizers at theaddress below.

Scope and Topics : The objective of the Conference is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in research areas connecting Systems and Computer Science. High level contributions are awaited on various domains, ranging from theory over numerics to various applications. Contributions at the crossroad of Systems and Computer Science fields will be considered with great interest. Industrial participants and junior researchers are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Invited Sessions: A summary statement describing the motivation and relevance of the proposed session, invited paper titles and author names must be submitted by the organizer(s) and draft versions of each prospective invited paper must be submitted by the authors through the conference web site

Student Paper Award: “Best Student Paper” Award will be conferred to the author(s) of a paper presented at the meeting, based on the best combined marks of paper reviewing and paper presentation quality, assessed by the Program Committee and session chairs.

Paper submission: Manuscripts should be no longer than six (6) pages and should be submitted using the standard IEEE Transactions format.

The presented papers shall be included in the IEEE Xplore and IET Inspec databases

Important dates

March 15, 2012: Submission of draft papers and invited sessions May 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance June 15, 2012: Submission of final papers and early registration deadline August 29-31, 2012: Conference

On behalf of the International Organizing Committee, it gives us great pleasure to invite you to the ICNPAA 2012 World Congress: 9th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, which will be held at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Please visit the web site : http://www.icnpaa.com for all details AIAA, IFIP co-sponsored event The proceedings will be published by American Institute of Physics

PS: The Online version of the proceedings will be published simultaneously with the printed book and all conference participants and committees will have free access for one year.

AIP Conference Proceedings articles are indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP) and can be accessed in their Web of Science database directly with AIP CONF PRO as the publication name.

Plus panel debates and discussions on:Alarms: Managing bad actors - How do you effectively manage and rationalise alarms?DCS versus SCADA - Which system should you be using?Challenges of integrating systems - Hear our expert panel discuss their experiences, challenges and solutions to these complex projects.

Call for Proposals to Organize the 12th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, WODES 2014

The WODES steering committee is soliciting expressions of interest for the organization of WODES'14. All persons interested are invited to send a proposal to the WODES SC Chair Janan Zaytoon (janan.zaytoon@univ-reims.fr) by May 30, 2012. The proposal should contain the following information:

6.2 ACC2012 Workshop on Control of Power InvertersContributed by: Qing-Chang Zhong, zhongqc@ieee.org

Control of Power Inverters for Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation

Energy and sustainability are now on the top agenda of many governments. Smart grids have become one of the major enablers to address energy and sustainability issues. The integration of renewable energy, distributed generation and hybrid electrical vehicles into smart grids, through power inverters, is one of the most important research areas for smart grids. Power electronic systems, at the heart of smart grids, have provided an exciting stage for control engineers. The attention of the workshop will be paid to fully appreciate the beauty of the integration of control and power electronics with applications in smart grids. Various problems around inverters, e.g. power quality issues, provision of a neutral line, grid-connection, synchronisation and parallel operation of inverters, will be addressed with innovative concepts such as synchronverters (inverters that mimic synchronous generators), C-inverters (inverters with capacitive output impedances), robust droop control, sinusoid-locked loops etc. It will help researchers who want to move into the area of smart grids establish a solid technical foundation for modeling, optimisation and control of smart grids. Most of the artful control strategies to be presented will be demonstrated with experimental results and, hence, the workshop will also help practitioners understand how advanced control strategies could improve system performance. The workshop also provides an excellent opportunity for researchers, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows who work in the area to get familiar with the latest developments.

The abilities to detect wind turbine faults and to control turbines in the presence of faults are important aspects of decreasing the cost of wind energy and increasing penetration into electrical grids. Improvements in fault detection (FD) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) should increase reliability and decrease operations and maintenance costs, especially as wind turbines are installed in decreasingly accessible locations such as offshore. A previous benchmark model, (see Odgaard, et.al.; Fault Tolerant Control of Wind Turbines – a benchmark model; in Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes; pg. 155- 160, Barcelona, Spain, 2009) and competition drew enough high-quality papers to fill two sessions at the 2011 IFAC World Congress and submit proposals for two sessions at the IFAC Safeprocess Symposium in 2012. This challenge presented in this paper differs from the previous challenge in several ways. First, a higher-fidelity, more realistic wind turbine model is used, perhaps requiring more sophisticated fault detection and fault-tolerant control tools and likely making the results of greater applicability to the wind industry. This higher-fidelity model also allows the use of more realistic wind inputs that vary spatially across the rotor plane in addition to temporally. Also, the fault scenarios have been updated and additional information detailing their relevance has been provided. More details on the challenge and the benchmark model can be seen in the preprint paper which can be obtained from: http://www.kk-electronic.com/Files/Billeder/kk-electronic%202011/Turbine%20Control/FDI/FDbenchmark.pdf We encourage challenge participants from academia, research laboratories, industry, and other groups. Participants should implement their FD algorithms entirely within the FaultDetection Block of the Simulink-based FAST 5 MW turbine model available at http://www.kk-electronic.com/Default.aspx?ID=9589. For the FTC part of the challenge, implementation should be contained within both the Fault Detection Block and the Wind Turbine Controller blocks, where the latter is a subsystem of the Pitch and Torque Controllers and Systems block. No other modifications should be made to the model and no other measurements should be assumed available. The organizers of this challenge should be informed on your interest in this challenge before June 1 2012. Participants may be invited to prepare submissions for one or more invited sessions for the 2013 American Control Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. on June 17-19, 2013. For ACC submissions, abstracts will be due to the authors by September 3rd to enable invited session proposals. You may then submit your paper to 2013 ACC with session code provide by the organizers of this challenge before the submission deadline September 17 2012. Submit your solution implemented in Simulink by email to Peter Fogh Odgaard, peodg@kk-electronic.com, October 15 2012 Both contributions to the FDI and FTC parts of the problem are welcomed. Organizers: Dr. Peter F. Odgaard, kk-electronic a/s, peodg@kk-electronic.com Professor Kathryn E. Johnson, Colorado School of Mines, kjohnson@mines.edu

The aim of this workshop is to bring together nonlinear systems and control experts from different areas, and to present state-of-the-art results on the analysis and control of complex dynamical engineering systems, emphasizing the important role of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structures as analysis and design methods.

The fourth edition of the IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control will be held at the Residential Center of the University of Bologna located in Bertinoro, a medieval village on the hills facing the Adriatic coast. The Center is a complex of three large historical and monumental buildings,forming a unique block on the top of the ancient town, in a quiet and hospitable place, surrounded by a very pleasant and peaceful atmosphere. For more details, visit http://www.ceub.it/ .

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden is now hiring two PhD students within the emerging areas of large-scale multiple-antenna (LSMA) systems and heterogeneous networks (HetNet). The positions are funded by the CHASE-Multi-Antenna Technologies for Wireless Access and Backhaul (MATWAB) project (www.chalmers.se/s2/cha-en/chase), supported by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). The industry partners of the project are Ericsson AB (www.ericsson.com) and Qamcom AB (www.qamcom.se), and the research work will be done in collaboration with the industrial partners' research organization.

A PhD/MSc position is available to work on networked control systems. The PhD/MSc student will work on fundamental challenges in networked control systems and the demonstration of existing and newly proposed solutions to those challenges via a formation flight test platform.

Candidates must hold a BEng/BSc degree (MEng/MSc for a PhD applicant) in mechanical, aerospace engineering or related fields.

The applicants should email their CVs, brief statement of their background and interests and contact information to: Prof. Yoonsoo Kim Department of Aerospace and System Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Repulic of Korea Email: yoonsoo@gnu.ac.kr *Previous work place (University of Stellenbosch in South Africa) website: http://www.mecheng.sun.ac.za/AboutUs/personnel/yk.html

A PhD position is available in September 2012 at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse University (http://www.laas.fr). Title: Analysis and Control of Limited Information systems

The PhD proposal aims at investigating the influence of communication in the control theory context. More precisely, the objective is to examine to what extent controlled systems are impacted by imperfections due to communication between devices. Although the literature on control contains some preliminary works into this direction, there is a huge space for innovation and disruptive concepts as advocated by the content of this proposal. Similarly, the communication literature is very poor in terms of analyzing how communication systems should bedesigned for conveying quantities intended for control devices. This huge gap between the control and communication literature explains why such simple but major concepts like event-triggered systems have been developed only very recently. In order to fill this gap, this proposal comprises four specific tasks which can be summarized as follows : Modeling of information constraints, Analysis of the effect of information constraints on performance, Robust control design methods with respect to information constraints, Co-design control and communication schemes.

Requirements: Master degree in Control/Engineering.

The applicant should have very good knowledge of feedback control systems, nonlinear systems, and robust control. Experience with MATLAB/SIMULINK is needed. Experience with information theory will strengthen the application. Effective communication skills in English both oral and especially written are needed.

The position is available in September 2012 for three years. The PhD student will be appointed by public funding with a salary of around 1400 Euros (free of charges).

Candidates should apply by email to Dr. Sophie Tarbouriech (tarbour@laas.fr) and Dr.Frederic Gouaisbaut (fgouaisb@laas.fr) with a CV summarizing university backgroundsand research experiences.

1) The first project focuses on the problem of counterfeit medicines, which is a growing concern globally, with, according to the WHO, up to 25% of all medicines in developing countries being counterfeit. About 700.000 deaths, annually, from just malaria and tuberculosis can be attributed to fake medicines, giving an indication of the scope of the problem. The announced Ph.D. position is a part of an attempt to remedy this situation, and is focused on the developing of robust and reliable detection and classification algorithms for pharmaceutical substances using nuclear quadrupole resonance. 2) The second project focuses on the development of multitapers, which are low-rank approximations of time-frequency kernels. The methods should be optimal for robust classification, detection, and estimation of non-stationary spectra.Such methods have many possible application areas, where one is estimation of the electrical brain signals (EEG). Using optimal cross-spectra and coherence spectra we can measure, e.g., how we perceive our environment or select relevant information from irrelevant information.

Two PhD scholarships in the areas of “Distributed Control and Estimation in Networked Environments” are available for commencement in 2012-13 with the Research School of Engineering at The Australian National University and the Control and Signal Processing Group at NICTA (National ICT Australia)’s Canberra Research Laboratory.

The candidates may be (jointly) supervised by Professor Brian D.O. Anderson, and/or Dr. Adrian Bishop, and/or Dr. Changbin(Brad) Yu. Candidature takes 3 to 4 years in most cases, with no requirement to undertake departmental teaching/tutoring duties.

PhD candidates should have a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours or equivalent level, i.e. GPA very close to 4.0, or preferably a Masters degree with research componenet, in engineering or applied math. A solid mathematical background is required together with a broad education in control systems or relevant disciplines, e.g. signal processing, optimization, communication networks.

The scholarship covers tuition fee and a living stipend at least at AUD 23,728 per annumtax free (2012 rate). Outstanding students, especially in later years, are expected to also receive a supplementary scholarship of up to AUD10,000 per annum.

Previous successful candidates often have a GPA placing them in top 5%, and/or publications in major conferences and/or journals.

Candidates should express their interest by emailing Dr. Changbin (Brad) Yu, brad.yu@anu.edu.au, or Dr. Adrian Bishop Adrian.bishop@nicta.com.au With at least (1) Curriculum Vitae; (2) Statement of Research Interest; (3) names and contacts of at least 3 academic referees; (4) if applicable, 3 significant publications. Note: The positions are open until filled. However, to receive a full consideration, candidates are advised to contact no later than 15/April for commencement in 2012, or 31/July for commencement in 2013. Candidates will be notified if they are shortlisted and they are required to lodge a formal application with ANU before respective deadlines, for more information, visit http://cecs.anu.edu.au/future_students/graduates/scholarships

ANU is an equal opportunity employer, but to increase the demographical diversity in the research group, we specially encourage applicants from outside the Asia-Pacific Region and with differentiated experiences.

Message: The Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, invites applications for a PhD-student position for the period of 3 years supported by the Norwegian Research Council. The department seeks an outstanding individual interested in developing new methods and experimental validation of approaches for motion, trajectory planning and motion and force controllers design for industrial robot manipulators. It is expected that the successful candidate will perform theoretical and experimental investigations in industrial robotics, mechatronics and control design of mechanical systems primarily focusing on constraints and limitations due to flexibility of joints, uncertainty in robot’s dynamics and robot’s environment, underactuation, limited sensing capabilities.

The successful applicant should have earned MSc degree in subjects of in robotics, mechanical or control engineering. S/he will have limited teaching duties and will be mainly responsible for conducting both applied and fundamental research studies jointly with partners of the project. Experience in organizing and running independent robotics research projects as well as industrial experience or/and the previous work in robotics and mechatronics projects are advantages.

Applications should be received by March 15, 2012 for full consideration, however the search will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a full resume, a cover letter, and the names and contact information of three references. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Professor Anton Shiriaev, phone: (+1) 4692795263, email: anton.shiriaev@itk.ntnu.no

Outstanding applications are solicited for a full-time PhD position in smart grid at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly). NYU-Poly is known as “Brooklyn Poly” and is merging with NYU. The school is conveniently located in downtown Brooklyn with easy/quick subway connection to Manhattan. The scholarship covers both tuition and stipend and is competitive comparing to other schools.

If you're an outstanding student with a strong background in control systems with working knowledge of power systems, please write directly to Professor Jiang via email at zjiang@poly.edu Please attach a copy of your latest CV with email addresses of at least 2 references and a copy of your academic transcript.

PhD and Postdoc Scholarships: School of Electrical Engineering,Tel Aviv University

A PhD/Postdoc position in designing converters for renewable energy power generators is available at the School of ElectricalEngineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Project Details:

It is expected that in the coming years, the proportion of power generators using renewable energy sources will increase dramatically in many countries. One of the central problems now being investigated by many teams is how to connect large scale renewable energy sources to the electrical grid without jeopardizing the grid stability. The project will involve the theoretical analysis, design and construction of novel DC/AC converters that mimic the behavior of synchronous generators together with their controllers. The project is funded by the Israel Strategic Alternative Energy Fund; seehttp://www.i-saef.org/ The successful applicant is anticipated to have a first-class honours degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or other relevant areas, with specialization in either power conversion or control theory.

Experience in building electronic circuits involving digital signalprocessors is most welcome. All applicants are expected to possessgood communication skills in English (Hebrew in not required) and should satisfy the academic admission requirements for the PhD programme of Tel Aviv University. Applications should include a detailed CV, including e-mail addresses of two referees, a copy of academic transcripts and a cover letter detailing the applicant’s research interest and its relevance to the project. Potential applicants should discuss their application and forward their paperwork via e-mail to Michael Margaliot, michaelm@eng.tau.ac.il, or George Weiss, gweiss@eng.tau.ac.il The deadline for applications is 31 March 2012 or until the position filled, for the starting date we are flexible. Further information can be obtained by e-mail from the persons named above.

Following a major Science Foundation Ireland investment in the area of Green Transportation networks, the Hamilton Institute invites applications for a number of research positions in the area of smart city transportation systems and networks:

1. Post-doctoral researcher in the area of transportation modelling and cooperative feedback control (with specific regard to new vehicle types and vehicle mixes);2. Post-doctoral researcher in the area of mathematics of distributed optimization of massively large-scale systems;3. Post-doctoral researcher in the area of cooperative mobility systems and applications of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure technologies;4. Ph.D. position in the area of cooperative control and optimization with application to transportation networks.5. Ph.D. position in cooperative ECO adaptive cruise control.6. Ph.D. position in cooperative algorithms for hybrid electric vehicle charging and grid integration.7. Ph.D. position in cooperative sensing with specific application to cooperative GPS applications.8. Ph.D. position in data privacy and anonymity-preserving communication networks.

A number of these positions will be held jointly with the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) and with Fraunhofer-Fokus in Berlin.

A background and knowledge of one or more of the following areas is desirable: Control and Optimization; Queueing/Information theory; Pollution/Environmental Modelling and Sensing in cities; Wireless Communications; Automotive Systems including Hybrid Electric Vehicles.

Postdoctoral candidates must be able to demonstrate an excellent international research track record and the potential to contribute leadership. Postgraduate candidates should hold a good (first-class honours or equivalent) degree in a cognate field and be motivated to tackle challenging research problems.

Postdoctoral appointments will be on the Science Foundation Ireland Research Fellow scale €42,394-€63,125, at a level reflecting experience and qualifications.Postgraduate scholarships are open to Irish, EU and international students and carry a stipend of €18,000 (tax free).

To apply, candidates should submit a detailed CV, transcripts of undergraduate grades, motivation letter and the names and addresses of two referees for letters of recommendation to Prof. Robert Shorten, email: hamilton@nuim.ie. For further details see www.hamilton.ie.

The Hamilton Institute has one of the largest and most active applied mathematics research groups in Ireland and is an international centre of excellence. The National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) is a leading international research centre in the field of geographic information science. Both are located in Maynooth, a small university town located 20 Km west of Ireland’s capital city Dublin with a vibrant cultural and social life.

The Royal Institute of Technology announces 1-3 Positions for Postdoctoral Researchers at ACCESS Linnaeus Centre

The ACCESS Linnaeus Centre at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, invites applications from outstanding candidates for postdoctoral research positions. ACCESS is one of Europe’s largest university research centers in networked systems. 36 senior researchers and 100 PhD students are involved in developing fundamental understanding and engineering principles for designing self-managed and scalable communication, control and sensor networks.

Candidates should have a PhD (or be near completion) in a relevant field and a strong research and publication record. The ability and interest to work across traditional disciplines and to initiate new research collaborations is essential. KTH aims to employ a diversity of talent and thus welcomes applicants who will add to the variety of the University, especially as concerns its gender structure.

The duration of the position is 12 months and may be extended by an additional 12 months. The starting date is during fall or winter of 2012. Complete information can be found on www.access.kth.se.

The application (including CV, publication list and brief research statement) should be sent by email (as a single pdf file) to 0075@ee.kth.se. The application deadline is April 20, 2012. Write the reference number E-2012-0075 in the subject line of your application email.

A postdoctoral position is available at the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. A successful candidate is expected to conduct research in the new domain of distributed (micro)manipulation by shaping force fields using arrays of (micro)actuators with strong focus on applications in biochemistry. In particular, electrical field will be shaped by controlling voltages applied to a planar array of microelectrodes, leading to the so-called dielectrophoretic manipulation with cell-mimicking microparticles such as liposomes in a liquid environment, but combination with other electrokinetic and microfluidic phenomena will also be explored. It is expected that the theoretical research in the algorithmic domain will be accompanied by laboratory experimentation with microfluidic devices.

The applied motivation for the research comes through the participation in a multipartner “Center of Excellence for Advanced Bioanalytical Technologies”, wherein the other two partner groups are analytical chemistry and biochemistry laboratories. Tight interactions with these researchers are expected. See more details on the starting project at http://biocentex.felk.cvut.cz.

Applicants of two possible research profiles are sought:

1.) Either they should have a solid theoretical background in systems & signals-based fields such as control engineering, robotics and automation proved by a few solid journal publications. Some previous exposure to electrokinetics and general microfluidics and microsystems will be an excellent advantage but is not required. However, strong engineering spirit and ability to set up and conduct independent laboratory experiments using microscopes, digital cameras, signal generators, amplifiers and rapid prototyping systems (Matlab/Simulink or Labview based) is required.

2.) Or they should have a firm background in electrokinetics and/or general microfluidics including at least modest level of mastering microfabrication procedures, and good modeling and experimentation skills proved by a few solid journal publications. Nonetheless, since the project is of strong of multidisciplinary flavour, eagerness to learn new things from the fields such as control systems, robotics, automation and computer science is the key component in the applicants' motivation in order to make the interactions in the team feasible.

The applicant will become a member of Czech Technical University in Prague, the most prestigious technical university in Czech Republic, located in the very center of the beautiful city of Prague. The home department for the applicant will be Department of Control Engineering. The department is lead by Prof. Michael Sebek – a researcher in control-oriented algorithms for polynomials and polynomial matrices, also a co-founder of PolyX company producing Polynomial Toolbox for Matlab. Other professors are Prof. Vladimir Kucera – one of the pioneers of the polynomial approach to linear control and a former IFAC president, Prof. Vladimir Havlena – a “senior fellow” researcher in Prague Honeywell Laboratory specializing in estimation and filtering for industrial processes, and Prof. Sergej Celikovsky – a renowned expert in nonlinear systems theory. Apart from the theoretical domains represented by these professors and their research assistants and students, the department has a strong local industrial collaboration in diverse areas of industrial automation. Quick link to the bilingual annual report is http://dce.fel.cvut.cz/the-department/annual-reports/. The actual research group with which the applicant would stay is the recently established http://aa4cc.dce.fel.cvut.cz/.

Applicants will also be asked to supervise a team of undergraduate and/or graduate students working on this project, hence good communication skills are needed.

The initial appointment is for one year, with the possibility to extend up to three years. The deadline for submitting an application is May 31, 2012. The pre-selected candidates will be invited for an interview in June 2012. The appointment will start in July 2012 (or depending on the negotiation).

Competitive salary can be offered and depending on the expertize also further negotiated.

Knowledge of Czech language not needed.

Interested candidates should contact Dr. Zdenek Hurak (hurak@fel.cvut.cz). The application should contain a CV, a formal letter of interest, a list of the candidate's conference and journal publications, with the best three publications attached. Contact details for three researchers who are willing to provide a reference must be also given.

Message: The Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position for the period of 2 years supported by the Norwegian Research Council. The department seeks an outstanding individual with the research record in analysis and robust control for nonlinear mechanical systems with limited control authorities, hybrid and uncertain dynamics and underactuation. It is expected that the successful candidate will perform theoretical and experimental investigations in subjects of robotics, mechatronics and control of mechanical systems focused on developing and validating approaches for motion and trajectory planning and controllers design for robust stabilization.

The successful applicant should have recently earned PhD in robotics, mechanical and control engineering. S/he will have limited teaching duties and will be mainly responsible for conducting both applied and fundamental research studies jointly with partners of the project. Experience in organizing and running independent robotics research projects as well as industrial experience or/and the previous work in robotics and mechatronics projects are advantages.

Applications should be received by March 15, 2012 for full consideration, however the search will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a full resume, a cover letter, and the names and contact information of three references. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Professor Anton Shiriaev, phone: (+1) 469 279 5263, email: anton.shiriaev@itk.ntnu.no

PostDoctoral Research Associate position at Imperial College London: "Data-based optimal control of synthetic biology gene circuits"

The Control Engineering Synthetic Biology group (http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/g.stan/group/) located within the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/syntheticbiology) and the Department of Bioengineering (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/bioengineering) at Imperial College London (U.K.) is currently looking to hire an experienced and motivated PostDoctoral Research Associate to work on the U.K. EPSRC funded research project EP/J014214/1: *Data-based optimal control of synthetic biology gene circuits*. We are seeking highly motivated, bright researchers and our group is a dynamic, highly productive and stimulating environment, where we provide world-class multi-disciplinary training.

This Research Associate position is available for fourteen months to work with Dr Guy-Bart Stan (http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/g.stan/) in the Department of Bioengineering and the new EPSRC Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation at Imperial College London. In this position, the successful applicant will work in a fast-paced dynamic environment performing studies at the interface between control engineering and synthetic biology. The research conducted will aim to build foundational methods for the optimal control of synthetic biology gene circuits using a data-based approach, mainly through the application and novel development of reinforcement learning methods.

Applicants should have a PhD in Computer Science, Control Engineering, Machine Learning, Computational Biology or closely aligned disciplines, or an equivalent level of professional qualifications and experience. Previous experience in nonlinear dynamical systems, reinforcement learning and optimal control (sequential decision making / multi-stage stochastic programming), deterministic and stochastic modelling of gene expression, or equivalent research, industrial or commercial experience is highly desired. Previous research experience in synthetic biology will be advantageous but is not a requirement; this project is an excellent opportunity for a skilled individual to cross-over into the exciting field of synthetic biology.

*Job Title*: Research Associate - Data-based optimal control of synthetic biology gene circuits*Department/Division/Faculty*: Department of Bioengineering, Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus*Salary*: £31,300 - £36,770 per annum Fixed-term appointment for 14 months*Closing Date for applications*: 15 March 2012 (midnight GMT) The position needs to filled by June 2012*How to apply*: Applicants should apply online at http://tiny.cc/vo0kp. If this link does not work please visit http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment, select "Job Search", and then enter the job title "Data-based optimal control of synthetic biology gene circuits" or vacancy reference number EN20120027FH into "Keywords". Complete and upload an application form as indicated in the "How to apply" section. Once completed, please do not forget to upload your application form prior to submitting your application. In addition to the application form, please also attach a CV, a brief expression of interest including a short description of your past activities and goals, and a scanned copy of your PhD certificate.

*Brief project description*:Synthetic Biology aims at the engineering of biological systems. Its most prominent application is the rational modification or (re-)design of living organisms, ideally in a way akin to the engineering of man-made devices, for their efficient use in sectors such as energy, biomedicine, drug production and food technology. The availability of control mechanisms that can ensure robust and optimal operation of engineered systems is one of the key factors behind the tremendous advances in engineering fields such as transportation, industrial production and energy. However, in the case of engineered biosystems, their accurate control must typically overcome two important hurdles: uncertainty and noise. Uncertainty arises from a high number of components that interact in a nonlinear (and often unknown) manner, and makes it often extremely hard to build accurate mathematical models of their behaviour. Noise, on the other hand, is ubiquitous in cellular systems since the environmental conditions in which they operate typically vary unpredictably and gene expression is inherently a stochastic process.

In this project, we will investigate the possibility of automatically learning to optimally control synthetic biology gene networks from input-output data collected from these gene networks, i.e. without using a mathematical model built a priori. In particular, we will develop algorithms that allow computer-based systems to autonomously learn how to vary the inputs of given gene networks so as to optimise their performance defined in terms of the time evolution of their measured outputs. The control strategies learned by our methods will take into account noise and uncertainties in the data and will be developed to be robust with respect to these. Such data-based strategies are analogous to, for example, the way we drive our cars: without any a priori mathematical model of the car behaviour on the road, we can effectively learn when and by how much to steer, accelerate and break (inputs) based on our observations of the car's position and velocity on the road (outputs) so as to, for example, minimise our lap time around an unknown track.

The algorithms we will develop will allow users to define the desired behaviour and performance objectives and will compute input-scheduling strategies that allow these objectives to be satisfied. The project will build on methods that we have developed and successfully applied to the optimal control of nonlinear systems in noisy environments, e.g., data-based optimal drug-scheduling for HIV infected patients (http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/g.stan/CDC_2006.pdf). The use of such purely data-based optimal control methods is particularly important in synthetic biology applications where the system to be controlled is typically poorly characterised and model uncertainties prevail, yet large amount of high-throughput input-output data are available or can be extracted.

Position Description:The Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine is recruiting for a post-doctoral fellow position to carry out research on control systems design and implementation in a medical device application involving the treatment of cancer patients. The successful candidate will work with other post-doctoral fellows and graduate students in the laboratory. It is expected that the successful candidate will publish their work in reputed journals.

Qualifications:Candidates for this position must have a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, or related physical science. Successful applicants must be highly motivated and must have strong programming (C/C++ and Matlab) skills. Experience in LabView and robotics is required. Hands-on experience with sensors and servo/stepper motors is highly preferred. Expertise in embedded/control engineering is also preferred. The appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of extension for another year. Applications should include a cover letter, CV/resume and the names of three references. Individuals with evidence of experience in scholarly research are encouraged to apply.

Employer and Environment:The Department of Radiation Oncology within the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center has a main facility at the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore, close to the main attractions of the Inner Harbor waterfront and professional sports arenas, theaters and symphony venues.

Applications are invited for positions as Linnaeus Postdoctor at the Department of Automatic Control, LTH, Lund University, Sweden.

The positions are tied to the LCCC, Lund Centre for Control of Complex engineering systems. See and the LCCC homepage http://www.lccc.lth.se/. This is an opportunity for excellent young researchers to develop their own line of research in synergy with a strong environment. LCCC has been created with support from a ten year Linnaeus grant by the Swedish Research Council, a special grant allocated to research environments of highest international quality.

Luleå University of Technology is the northernmost university of technology in Scandinavia and with world-class research and education. Our strength lies in our cooperation with companies and with rest of the world around us. Our contact with companies and society help us develop research and education that satisfy the demands that the world around makes on us and our students.

The Control Engineering Group (CEG) at the department of Computer Science and Electrical and Space Engineering are now looking for one or two assistant professors contributing to our growing activities. Applications include, but are not limited to, plant wide optimization of sustainable process industries, automation of heavy vehicles and wireless sensor networks. CEG is participating in many BSc and MSc engineering programs and has a vital role in ProcessIT Innovations.

The candidates will perform research with a substantial experimental component, published in peer-reviewed international journals and at major conferences. The position also includes teaching and supervision of MSc and PhD students, and to acquire funding for PhD and Postdoc projects from research funding agencies/councils, EU framework program or industry. As an assistant professor, you work actively and with great responsibility. We are looking for a candidate who can contribute to the continued building of our research group. The position is part of a special career program which means that the employee will be offered a skills assessment for more advanced work and permanent employment.

As an assistant professor, you work actively and with great responsibility. We are looking for a candidate who can contribute to the continued building of our research group.

Eligible for employment as Associate Senior Lecturer is whom that has been awarded a PhD or have a foreign degree that is judged corresponding to a PhD. The degree should not have been received more than five years before the application closing date.

Please send your application to Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU), Registrator, 971 87 Luleå, or by e-mail: registrator@ltu.se. The reference number 416-12 should be indicated on the application. Enclose the scientific work which the applicant primarily wants to use as support for his/her application. The application must be submitted in two separate sets.

We would prefer applicants to follow the Application template accessed via our website, under “open positions”.

Assistant Professor in Multidimensional Systems and Control at the Delft Center for Systems and Control

Job description: The position's research focus will be oriented towards fundamental aspects in modelling, identification and control of multidimensional systems in the field of photonics, optics and image processing using active optical components (deformable lenses, mirrors, cameras). The fundamental research of the new position will involve developing numerical methods for identification and control of 2D, 3D and 4D systems for optics, photonics and high resolution imaging. Attention will also be given to the algorithmic development and implementation, taking developments in embedded computing with multi-core processors or distributed computing into consideration. The application fields are in the area of health and life sciences, industrial high resolution imaging, astronomy and lasers. The particular focus areas are on the development of the next generation of integrated, adaptive optics systems for micro- and nanoscopy, lithography, telescopes, long-range cameras and laser development. These application developments require close cooperation in a multi-disciplinary team with biologists, physicists, micro-electronic sensor and actuator developers and medical staff. The application studies involve joint development of innovative hardware demonstrators. The position also challenges the candidate to develop a new course curriculum to prepare students for joining in the research at the BSc, MSc and PhD levels. This curriculum design also involves developing and maintaining a high quality laboratory. The development of such a lab environment for education will be closely linked with the new research initiatives initiated through external funding.

Requirements: The candidate has a PhD degree in one of the following areas: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, with a profound specialisation in multidimensional system theory, preferably with experience in photonics, optics and image processing systems. He or she is able to conduct research according to international standards, as demonstrated by international publications and a PhD thesis. The candidate has already gained an international reputation in his or her field of research. Additional experience in setting up an optics lab for validation of new system theoretic developments is an asset. The candidate is able to effectively cooperate and communicate with colleagues in related fields. He or she has a stimulating and cooperative attitude in contacts with students, engineers, and colleagues within the group and in projects performed in collaboration with other university groups and/or industrial partners. International applicants must be willing to acquire a working knowledge of the Dutch language.

Conditions of employment: The position offered is a tenure-track position for a period of 5 years, leading to a permanent position assuming excellent performance. TU Delft offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, free high-speed Internet access from home (with contracts of two years or longer), and the option of assembling a customised compensation and benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. TU Delft sets specific standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. TU Delft offers training to improve English competency.

Information and application: For more information about this position, please contact Prof. M. Verhaegen, phone: +31 (0)15-2785204, e-mail: m.verhaegen@tudelft.nl. To apply, please e-mail the following materials: a resume, including list of publications, the names of three professional references, copies of three significant publications, a personal research statement, and a personal teaching statement. Please e-mail your materials by 15 April 2012 to Prof. Verhaegen, application-3mE@tudelft.nl. When applying for this position, please refer to vacancy number 3ME12-06.

Faculty of Engineering at the University of Windsor is searching for two outstanding tenure track assistant professor candidates in the general area of aerospace engineering. Please see our ad at the following web address for further details:

We will consider highly qualified candidates with a strong theoretical background in computer science, physics, statistics, information science, engineering, or mathematics, with an orientation towards research on processing huge amounts of complex data in the analysis of technical, socio economic or biological systems. Candidates must have an excellent record of high-impact international publications. They should have demonstrated remarkable ability in leading research groups, as well as experience in conducting/coordinating international projects.Preference will be given to candidates performing research at the intersection between algorithms, theory and applications, and who are active in one or more of the following fields: analysis and modeling of massive data structures; graph theory and random structures; analysis and modeling of complex networks; machine learning; data mining; parallel and distributed computation. Expressions of interest should be submitted no later than May 15th 2012 via the online form (http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/professors_positions/2012/appli...). For further information about the position, applicants can refer to the website, or can contact Sara Olson, e-mail: scouting@imtlucca.it.

Applications are invited for a post in Applied Mathematics at the Senior Lecturer or Reader level. The successful applicant will have a strong track record of independent research of international standing. The person appointed will be expected to sustain a leading research programme, and successfully secure external funding. Candidates should have a strong interest in pursuing excellence in under-graduate and postgraduate teaching and in supervising graduate students.

Applications are welcome in any area of Applied Mathematics which resonates with and/or complements existing areas of expertise at Bath (this includes control theory).

Candidates should provide a full Curriculum Vitae, a statement of research interests of up to 3 pages and use the online application portal at http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/ where further details of the position are also available.

Expressions of interest are invited for a research fellow position available in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, in the School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The position is supported by the research grant on extremum seeking control, which is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The successful candidate will address fundamental issues and tackle real world applications of extremum seeking, by making contributions relevant to theoreticians and practitioners alike in this wide-reaching research field. The offer will be for two years in the first instance, with a possibility of extension for up to one year subject to satisfactory progress and availability of funds.

The applicants for this position are anticipated to have a PhD or equivalent in Electrical Engineering or Applied Mathematics, with specialization in control theory. Applicants are expected to possess excellent communication and research skills. The position will be advertised soon on the following website: www.jobs.unimelb.edu.au

Please check website for details of the position (including the selection criteria and position description) once the ad is available. Potential applicants should apply on-line from the above website of The University of Melbourne. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2012.

The Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute (BHSAI) is looking to hire research scientists in the areas of physiological data modeling, bioinformatics/systems biology, and computational chemistry & biology. The BHSAI is part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, located at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. The positions are contract positions administered by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF).

These openings are for dynamic scientists with interest in working in an inter-disciplinary environment with focus on the development and application of computational solutions to biomedical problems. Experience in high performance computing is a plus. The candidates are expected to simultaneously work in multiple projects, involving a diverse and interdisciplinary team of scientists across multiple laboratories.

Foreign nationals are welcome to apply. U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is not required.

Apply for these positions through the HJF website at http://www.hjf.org/careers/open-jobs. The ID numbers and descriptions for the positions are:

ABB Corporate Research Switzerland is looking for an R&D scientist with a PhD degree in mechanical, electrical, or chemical engineering to work on the control of industrial processes, thermodynamic cycles, and turbomachinery. Interested candidates shall use the ABB application tool to apply online (www.abb.com > careers > Available jobs > enter CH51828502 in the search field below the world map). In case of further questions, please contact Mehmet Mercangoez (mehmet.mercangoez@ch.abb.com).

The control & optimization group within the corporate research centre at ABB, Bangalore, India is looking for qualified individuals for the position of scientist.

Tasks:

As an experienced researcher, being part of this group, you will be handling projects aimed at developing high quality and innovative prototypes for Automation Systems to optimize the operational performance of industrial processes of ABB’s customers. In this context, you will be leading the project team in the development, implementation, testing and maintaining models of industrial processes to enable their optimization. Your R&D function involves simulation of the process behavior, identification of the optimization potential, development of appropriate controllers or optimization solutions based on existing methods, algorithms and tools or develop new algorithms/methods and will also be responsible for appropriate task and project execution to meet the agreed project targets.

Requirements:

Your Phd or Masters in any of the related area of studies with an experience in working with modeling languages, simulation tools and optimization programs and Designing controllers for optimal performance of industrial plants and processes,Testing and validation of model against plant data, Identifying and developing new areas of plant improvements would be an ideal fit for the profile. Your experience in creating requirement specifications and validation plans, writing operational documentation, reports and publications,ensuring IP protection of innovations would be a plus.

A position is available in the Dept. Electrical & Electronic Engineering,University of Melbourne, Australia for a research fellow in the area of networked estimation, identification and control. A strong background in systems and control theory and convex optimization is essential, and a solid understanding of the principles of wireless communications and information theory is desirable. The researcher will work with Prof. Subhrakanti Dey, Assoc. Prof Girish Nair and Assoc. Prof. Erik Weyer.

This position is available for two years. The salary is in the range $81,925 – $91,139 p.a., plus employer superannuation contribution of 9%.

To obtain further details or to apply, please go to www.jobs.unimelb.edu.au and search under keyword 'networked'.